Institute of Packaging Professionals
The professional society for the people who design and engineer packaging, and the body behind the Certified Packaging Professional credential that marks mastery of the discipline.
Peer societies
Five societies Institute of Packaging Professionals is read alongside.
AIPA
AICC, The Independent Packaging Association
A trade body built by and for the independent converters of paper based packaging, where suppliers and…
4 companies named
GPI
Glass Packaging Institute
The trade association of North America's glass container makers, promoting glass and pressing for a circular…
PMMI
Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute
The association for packaging and processing technologies, best known for the PACK EXPO trade shows, market…
14 companies named
CMI
Can Manufacturers Institute
The national trade association of the US metal can industry and its suppliers, advancing the can through…
24 companies named
SPE
Society of Plastics Engineers
A global professional society for plastics engineers and the plastics industry that advances knowledge of…
9 companies named
Who backs IPP
Every company Institute of Packaging Professionals names publicly as a supporter, exactly as published. Companies also named by other associations on Sociogene come first.
| Company | Support as published | Also named by |
|---|---|---|
| abbvie | Corporate partner | AND AAD AAN AAO AAPMR +3 |
| Altria | Corporate partner | A CGRCC DSCC MCCA NASBO +3 |
| General Mills | Corporate partner | AND ASN BPAA CCOF CDF +3 |
| MARS | Corporate partner | AAOHN AWWA A CTA IFDA +3 |
| PepsiCo | Corporate partner | AND AACC AHLA AOCS ASN +3 |
| The Clorox Company | Corporate partner | ACI ASCC AALS EBCF FHCA +3 |
| Ansys | Corporate partner | AIAA ASME S |
| McCormick | Corporate partner | B IFDA MCC |
| Berlin Packaging | Corporate partner | NVV |
| TricorBraun | Corporate partner | DSCUS |
| APackaging Group | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Atlantic Packaging | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| DGeo | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Easy Plastics | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Forest_PKG | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Oliver | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Packaging Digest | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Packaging World | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| PCA | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Printpack | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Specright | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| STERIMED | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Taghleef Industries | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| Trayak | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
| UFP | Corporate partner | Only Institute of Packaging Professionals, so far |
Sources: 1 published list, read September 2026
Our Industry Partners. Read September 27, 2026. Undated current industry partner program, read from the logo widget data the page loads; PMMI (association) excluded.
Who backs Institute of Packaging Professionals's peers, but not Institute of Packaging Professionals
Companies named publicly by at least one of Institute of Packaging Professionals's five peer societies, and not found in Institute of Packaging Professionals's reviewed public records.
| Company | AIPA | PMMI | CMI | SPE | Peers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACTEGA North America | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| AkzoNobel Packaging Coatings | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Aluminum Dynamics LLC | Aluminum Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Anton Paar | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 | |||
| ArcelorMittal | Steel Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Autodesk | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 | |||
| Canadian Packaging | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Carnaud Metal Box | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Columbus Instruments | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 | |||
| Constellium | Aluminum Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Covia | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 | |||
| DRT Holdings LLC | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Econocorp | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Environ Energy | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Envita Solutions | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| FESTO | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Frost Law AZ, LLC | Silver Sponsors | 1 of 4 | |||
| Galland Henning Balers | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Hamrick | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Henkel | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| INX International Ink Co. | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| JLS | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Justifacts | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Kaiser Aluminum | Aluminum Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| KG Steel USA INC | Steel Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Marchesini Group | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Materials Science Corporation | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Morrison | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| National Coatings Company | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| NETZSCH | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 | |||
| Novelis | Aluminum Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Ohio Coatings Company | Steel Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Omya | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 | |||
| PMI KYOTO | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| PPG Industries, Inc. | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Printers 401K | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Roeslein & Associates, Inc. | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Schneider-Electric | Visionary Benefactor | 1 of 4 | |||
| Service First Processing | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Sherwin Williams | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| ShivooStudios | Silver Sponsors | 1 of 4 | |||
| SMC | Named | 1 of 4 | |||
| Soudronic | Other Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Steelforce Packaging USA | Steel Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Struktol | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 | |||
| TBG | Gold Sponsor | 1 of 4 | |||
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 | |||
| TKG | Silver Sponsors | 1 of 4 | |||
| Tosyali Toyo | Steel Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Tri-Arrows Aluminum | Aluminum Suppliers | 1 of 4 | |||
| Waters™ | TA Instruments® | Preferred Partner | 1 of 4 |
The outside view
The professional society for the people who design and engineer packaging, and the body behind the Certified Packaging Professional credential that marks mastery of the discipline.
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Their shape
The Guild
Where mastery is the price of belonging.
The Guild is the keeper of a craft and its standards, where belonging means meeting a real bar. Its gift is depth and trusted expertise, its challenge is opening up to newcomers and new ways.
Also reads toward The Citadel and The Village.
Strengths
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